8 hours since last update:

#10 PS4 Nathan Drake Bundle (up 1)
#12 XB1 Kinect Bundle (same)
#22 PS4 Black Ops Bundle (up 2)*
#23 PS4 Star Wars Bundle (same)*
#24 XB1 Halo Bundle (up 10)
#45 XB1 Gears Bundle (same)
#58 PS4 Star Wars Standard Bundle (down 7)*
#64 XB1 Forza Bundle (up 1)
#71 XB1 Madden Bundle (up 12)
#78 XB1 Three Game Bundle (same)
#90 PS4 Destiny Bundle (up 4)
#91 N3DS (re-entry)
#93 PS4 Fool's Edition (down 14)
#97 XB1 Fallout Bundle (re-entry)

*Does not affect this month

PS4 - 5 bundles, 5 in the top 100 (plus standalone)
XB1 - 10 bundles, 7 in the top 100

What caused such a boost?

'Originally Posted by Abdiel

Ahhhhhhh. I'm so tired.

It's only going to get worse.

Sigh. I'll add more later.

Messy. Very messy. We still have halo bundles left... Lots and lots of the game sold. It did very well. Impressive indeed. (Some shocked people left our midnight release line when they found out about no couch co-op. I was like... Come on, this isn't new news...)

Hardware? I'm still trying to check more national districts. In at least the 3 I've checked so far, ps4 > xb1. Not by immense margins, mind. But still. Leading.

But I mean. That price cut has been really nice to them.'

'I checked another few districts before I headed home tonight. It looks like across the country, most Best Buys are following that trend, where the PS4 is leading the XB1 for October. How much varies. Sometimes its higher, sometimes its a lot closer, but it is still generally a lead of some kind. There also seems to be a lot of the Halo bundles still available. To put in perspective... In over 50 stores within a 400 mile radius, none of them were sold out of the Halo bundle. None.'

Already posted

Just dance for wii at #79( that series refuses to die) Also i think next month the halo bundle price might be slash to maybe 450 or even 400 usd.

Only for Black Firday I reckon. If the price is cut in a permanent way so soon after relase then the early buyers will have good cause to be extremely pissed at MS. Wheras if it's a Black Friday / Cyber Monday only deal then there's nothing to complain about.

I would consider doing it, if I was MS, if I could offer a meaningful freebie to everyone who bough the bundle at $499.

Did Halo bundle really move that much, and Gears bundle not move at all? I thought it would be the other way around.

Thngs have changed in just the last few minutes. I think for the first time the Kiect Bundle has droped a spot. And NDC is back at #9. Does this mean the Kinect bundle has found its peak and will hover in that 12-20 range for a while?

Well lets not forget its a LE bundle so i think we wont be seeing much of it starting next year.

The Kinect is a limited offer and but for the casuals who have no idea how Kinect is doing or how little it's getting supported, I see no lasting market. It's the very definition of an impulse buy product. I still think the PS4 will sneak this month but EVEN if the XB1 wins, this months results are going to be shocking. Wind back to pre Halo month and remember the general view of how this month will play out. It hasn't happened. I think the Kinect bundle could have helped the Nathan Drake bundle to reach the No 1 spot for the month simply because it's forced the Halo Bundle down. Phil Spencer made the statement that MS are still supporting Kinect prior to this huge price drop. Why do you think that is?

Even more reason not to drop the price yet. If they get into december and retailers are still carrying stock then MS could perhaps let retailers know that they are fine with retailer specials without formally dropping the price. As a LE bundle, by definition, it's not going to be able to shift the dial a lot on sales numbers, because once they run out, there's no re-stocking. If they have X number of bundles still in the retail system on 1 November then it doesn't matter too much if they sell X over 4 weeks or over 1 week, they still only have X amount available. They are better to leave the price of the Halo bundle alone (except on Black Friday) and focus on making the unlimited skus more attractive for people to buy. Of course if they actually drop the base price of the Xb one down to $299 then all sku's should shift down in price by the same amount. Again, early buyers of the Halo bundle can't complain too much if the price cut is across the board.